Immigrants Flooding Canada

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1921, Page 4

Immigrants Flooding Canada

GREAT INFLUX WEEKLY. VANCOUVER, June 7

A huge flood of immigrants is now breaking on Canada, and during the month of May no fewer than a dozen trans-Atlantic liners brought their decks full of human freight to the historic portal of Old Quebec, and emptied nearv 1 1.000 souls in tbe city of Montreal alone. On one day toward tbe end of the month a significant sight was witnessed of a procession of three ocean greyhounds rounding the Levis Point in Old Quebec in single file, each laden with hundreds of newcomers to the relatively new land of Canada, and thus within a few hours'were added to the population of the Dominion nearly two thousand, or sufficient- to make a good-sized town. Thus the tide humanity is setting in Canadawards again, as it did last season, when the total arrivals reached nearly 10.000, or nearly enough to set up another citx of Winnipeg.

Despite stiffened regulations and closer inspections the tide is growing every month, and the immigrants, usually wear the broadest of smiles, from cm- to ear, when the final stamp of approval is put on their documents by the last Government inspector. and they are free to seek and find their niche in a country a continent-wide land.

On this occasion when the three stately vessels passed into Montreal, the imigrants came from divers lands in Europe. It must have been a truly great- adventure to all that! day. and it must have been so to the little lassie from Denmark, guarding her bundles and journeying all by herself on the strength of a single word, 1 innipeg. It was a long way from Espjerg to

“Yinnipog” when measured on the mu]), niul similarly for Port us 'Emmons mul Philomor inulovieus Hofmann, from Cz.eclio-Slovaki'a, as tliov produced forty thousand marks, reducible to a hundred dollars of Canadian currency. Then dime an Italian girl, Ramnp upon her country -to-be. Intensely dark were his eves, piercing and sea rollin': mul always alert. The Jewish teacher from Roumann had the hearing and mein of the scholar, several degrees in status above, the family of Polish Jews that included the seven ages of man end woman. Many watched tins little mother from Kuasia keeping her mtinefous brood within arm’s length, and askud how Canada looked to her and a group of Swiss Protestants, who were "rave, solemn, and unruffled. " Tie who could look unmoved upon the human stream as it descended the gang planks of the trio of steamers only to ascend the covered way to the Immigration Hall, could only.be described as callous and heartless indeed As the Corsican and Tunisian and Melitia released their human cargoes, a proees uion of prospective citizens represented every conceivable kind of receptacle. The question of “Where are you goi„<r?” put to a little lady from the other side of the English Channel, and from one of the new little lands mm’ possible by the Supreme O indl. brought the sweeping and comprehensive reply: “North American.” Then was noticed a Scotch soldier widow with a Sunday school of ten nil |,oys. facing a new world, new faces, a new life, and new problems with a quid poise that quietened other restless folks. The brave little lady from Ayrshire was i, shining lesson to the native-born Canadians for pluck as she laced Canada with an unafraid heart to commence life all over again. 1 low do the three thousand size upf ‘• \ hand-picked crowd for the mod pert,” “Hard to heat,” “The best quality.” “We couldn’t, get any better ones,” wore among the comments ol the experienced oflieers, some of whom have watched hundreds of ’thousands enter through Montreal and other ports. Well set. up, sturdy and brawny, and of a. standard of physical fitness to enable them to pass the medical exam iuatious on both sides of the Atlanta , they are hound to prove acceptable citizens of Canada.